British English SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000

Base de données SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000 de l'anglais britannique

ID:

ELRA-S0097

The British English SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000 database contains the recordings of 4,000 British English speakers (1,968 males, 2,032 females) recorded over the British fixed telephone network. This database is partitioned into 20 CDs.

Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

This speech database was validated by SPEX (the Netherlands) to assess its compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications.

The following age distribution has been obtained: 1,242 speakers are between 16 and 30, 1,321 speakers are between 31 and 45, 1,298 speakers are between 46 and 60, and the age of 139 speakers is unknown.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.